TinySSB | 2025-02-16

present: Mix + Nanomonkey

Agenda

Updates

Mix

hosted the JS API call
- was rad to have input
- => Mix is gonna bring a proposal to community (not done yet)
testing Nanomonkey's esp32-firmware install instructions
- hit some challenges, keen to discuss

Nanomonkey

esp32-firmware instructions
split out different repos
CFT + Nano did a talk at Internet Archive
- met Day W!
- people expect the network to "just work" after installing?!
- some people think offline-first was invented in 2019 😆
- our talk was a lot more advanced than others!
reviewed + merged Mix's spec PR
researching coordinated compression on distributed databases

Completing the Spec

Still needed:

feed message headers
- previous_msg_id encoding?
- side-chains
- bipf
replication
- goset - coordinating who we're talking about
- wants
- chunk
test vectors!
- define targets (what needs vectors?)
links to reference implementations
a version tag

The arc of the spec:

Intro - what is this?
Design Descisions (constraints of LoRa, et al)
Encoding => BIPF
Known Public Keys (GOSET)
Feeds
- main chain
- side chain
WANT requests
CHUNK requests
FAQ
- does this have routing?
- does this have hop count?
- is this the same as meshtastic?
- are there ACKs?

Firmware Repo Testing

new firmware repo:

mix hit problems with
- arduino complaining about "dialout" group
  - => needs more debugging
- many the vendor libraries: no name+version match for many
  - => gonna look into vendoring all the libraries!

CFT's cft-twatch branch:

seems like serveral libraries are missing
mix to try this out

Actions

Mix

spec PR: side-chain format
Mix working on getting firmware flashing
- give feedback to Nano + CFT

Nano

spec PR: start at bipf, goset, (continue down)